Scott Horton Interviews Mike Ludwig

Scott Horton, August 04, 2010

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Truthout contributor Mike Ludwig discusses the U.S. military’s missed opportunity to minimize the health risks from depleted uranium munitions, the Department of Defense’s policy of “don’t look, don’t find” regarding a link between DU and Gulf War Veterans Illness, the 40-year late Congressional action on Agent Orange related illnesses and why the health and safety of enlisted troops is a secondary concern to the generals in charge.

MP3 here. (20:40)

Mike Ludwig writes for Truthout.org.

5 Responses to “Mike Ludwig”

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  2. MoT
    August 5th, 2010 at 5:38 pm

    Lets be honest here. The bottom line is what sort of lunatics use radioactive material for munitions? Answer: The U.S. military! (ding ding ding ding….)

  3. Hacklheber
    August 5th, 2010 at 11:46 am

    Hey, having to pay for treatment sounds like a good occasion to kickstart the economy. Why not admit everything, then ship million-strong cleanup crews to Yougoslavia, Iraq, Lebanon and then Vietnam and Cambodia? Even the liberventionists and leftist Rooseveltian moneyprinters can't be not ok with *that*. Come to think of it, there probably are many factories and thousands of groundwater deposits to launder in the good old USA, too.

    What about it, congresscritters and Obama?

  4. E. A. Costa
    August 5th, 2010 at 4:56 pm

    It is not radioactive until it is fired.

    Let that be a consulation to all the US troops, all the Serbians, and all the Iraqis ailing from low-level radiation from US munitions.

    Incidentally the economics of it all are a Capitalist's dream–the manufacturers are paid to take it as "waste" and then turn it into projectiles which they sell back to the military at a big premium.

  5. 1todd_sheen
    August 6th, 2010 at 7:55 am

    Mike Ludwig is a great man, a man of honor and of word.

    Todd/a>

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